Ready For The Weekend

Inspired by our Supreme Court nominee I've been studying up on blackout drinking. I can't gauge other people's expectations but apparently blacking out is somewhat common but hardly inevitable among social drinkers (40% of college age drinkers reported a blackout in previous year). What does it mean for Kavanaugh and his claim that he has never blacked out? I don't know.

Blackouts Among Social Drinkers

Most of the research conducted on blackouts during the past 50 years has involved surveys, interviews, and direct observation of middle–aged, primarily male alcoholics, many of whom were hospitalized. Researchers have largely ignored the occurrence of blackouts among young social drinkers, so the idea that blackouts are an unlikely consequence of heavy drinking in nonalcoholics has remained deeply entrenched in both the scientific and popular cultures. Yet there is clear evidence that blackouts do occur among social drinkers. Knight and colleagues (1999) observed that 35 percent of trainees in a large pediatric residency program had experienced at least one blackout. Similarly, Goodwin (1995) reported that 33 percent of the first–year medical students he interviewed acknowledged having had at least one blackout. “They were inexperienced,” he wrote. “They drank too much too quickly, their blood levels rose extremely quickly, and they experienced amnesia” (p. 315). In a study of 2,076 Finnish males, Poikolainen (1982) found that 35 percent of all males surveyed had had at least one blackout in the year before the survey.

As might be expected given the excessive drinking habits of many college students (Wechsler et al. 2002), this population commonly experiences blackouts. White and colleagues (2002c) recently surveyed 772 undergraduates regarding their experiences with blackouts. Respondents who answered yes to the question “Have you ever awoken after a night of drinking not able to remember things that you did or places that you went?” were considered to have experienced blackouts. Fifty–one percent of the students who had ever consumed alcohol reported blacking out at some point in their lives, and 40 percent reported experiencing a blackout in the year before the survey. Of those who had consumed alcohol during the 2 weeks before the survey, 9.4 percent reported blacking out during this period. Students in the study reported that they later learned that they had participated in a wide range of events they did not remember, including such significant activities as vandalism, unprotected intercourse, driving an automobile, and spending money.

During the 2 weeks preceding the survey, an equal percentage of males and females experienced blackouts, despite the fact that males drank significantly more often and more heavily than females. This outcome suggests that at any given level of alcohol consumption, females—a group infrequently studied in the literature on blackouts—are at greater risk than males for experiencing blackouts. The greater tendency of females to black out likely arises, in part, from well–known gender differences in physiological factors that affect alcohol distribution and metabolism, such as body weight, proportion of body fat, and levels of key enzymes. There also is some evidence that females are more susceptible than males to milder forms of alcohol–induced memory impairments, even when given comparable doses of alcohol (Mumenthaler et al. 1999).

Comments

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

TheLastRefuge
‏ @TheLastRefuge2
10h10 hours ago

For two years Democrats have asserted the president should never influence FBI decisions and has no right to give FBI instructions.

Then, in the span of a week, those same Democrats demanded that President Trump MUST IMMEDIATELY start influencing and instructing the FBI.

[hoyden]

Oh, Larwyn'd!

Here's a short summary of Democrat's strategy.

Because our smear machine will reach back to middle school if necessary. If we can’t find any dirt on you, we will manufacture some. There is no depth to which we will not stoop, and your honesty, integrity and spotless reputation are no match for our control over the media and our determination to dredge up ridiculous allegations against anyone who stands in our way.

The Democrats are telling us: Republicans, beware–if this can happen to Brett Kavanaugh, it can happen to anyone. You’d better go quietly and cede power to us.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/why-the-brett-kavanaugh-smear.php

[jim nj]

Hoyden,

Thank you. I'm not trying to dis anybody, it's just bandwidth.

MM,

I am very happy that your daughter is happy. Totally, I just wish she had done her homework first. She'll have to do it now. I hope she has no problems.

[jim nj]

Nytol, b back soon.

[Pinandpuller]

Let me set the stage for you. It is the recent Anchorage municipal elections. It is cold, it is chilly, it’s Anchorage, and there are municipal propositions: one of them is about local cops being able to issue parking tickets. There’s also Proposition 1 (Prop 1), which attracted $900,000 in spending, dwarfing every other election by a country mile.

What’s Proposition 1?

Prop 1 was put forward by an organization called ‘Alaska Family Action’, and the aim of Prop 1 was to make bathrooms, once again, sex-segregated instead of being based on self-declared gender identity. Anchorage’s bathrooms had been segregated by gender identity since 2015. The left-leaning media reacted in cacophony against this new ‘bathroom bill’, and hundreds of thousands of dollars from reasonable people flowed into Anchorage to defeat a municipal ordinance proposal that would harm trans people. Common sense and reason won, and the liberal project continued, with the rights of transgender people to use the bathroom, re-affirmed.

https://medium.com/@sue.donym1984/inauthentic-selves-the-modern-lgbtq-movement-is-run-by-philanthropic-astroturf-and-based-on-junk-d08eb6aa1a4b

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

Night, jim nj!

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

http://www.vassarbushmills.com/?p=67177

"No Moral Equivalence Between Witnesses at Kavanaugh Hearing"

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/breaking-democrat-senator-said-he-was-voting-no-this-morning-now-he-has-a-different-opinion/?utm_source=salty&utm_medium=twitter

This has excerpts from Indiana news outlets. Looks like Donnelly is trying to have it both ways.

[hoyden]

The companion article.

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/how-to-christine-blasey-ford-proof-your-daughter/

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

I have to go lie down. I slept from 9:30 to 11:30 and from 1 until 3. This is just not enough sleep.

Back later this morning.

[hoyden]

Just in time for my third cuppa...

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/the-week-in-pictures-justice-kavanaugh-edition.php

[gentlejim]

What was it that the great philosopher Rodney King said?

Posted by: hrtshpdbox | September 29, 2018 at 05:45 AM

Was it, “hold my crack pipe while I go for a swim”?

Donnelly is a POS! I remember his no vote on ACA as promised. Silly me, he voted for it. Demoturd is as demoturd does.

[anonamom]

MM, you are welcome!

Email those to yourself, with something in the subject line that will let you know what they are, so you can find them on a search.

Good to reinforce when th Cheeto urge hits!

[JimNorCal]

h'box: "I wouldn't want a program that would allow me to block posts of a regular like TK."

Over time, I've become a TK fan.
I don't follow every debate.
Whenever I paid attention, he's clearly been consistent and fair. Yes, he can be a stickler and he can be combative. If you don't handle that set of qualities well, then don't engage.

One person's opinion.

[Davod]

Pinandpuller

"But I would assume that for security purposes each rep would get their own router. Can anyone confirm?"

How quickly we forget- each rep gets its own Pakistani for security purposes.

[Jim Eagle]

Doom & Gloom!

After the morning four-balls, Europe now leads USA 8-4 with the foursomes (alternate shot) ready to go. The team looks like they have just taken up the game at a local driving range.

The only positive note is the only other time it was this big a deficit, the USA came back to win the whole enchilada.

So, from now on, the rallying cry is "Remember Brookline".

[Beasts of England]

Me, too!!

- Mary Jo Kopechne

[Extraneus]

TheLastRefuge ‏ @TheLastRefuge2 10h10 hours ago

For two years Democrats have asserted the president should never influence FBI decisions and has no right to give FBI instructions.

Then, in the span of a week, those same Democrats demanded that President Trump MUST IMMEDIATELY start influencing and instructing the FBI.

That really is something.

[Beasts of England]

It's not what I was hoping for, JiB. Ugh.

[henry]

At NR, McCarthy figured out the Dems lied. Day late, dollar short.

[lurkersusie]

Flake thinks he’s presidential material

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Flake and Coons squeezed into an oversize phone booth—few still exist on Cap Hill—to call the FBI to see if a probe could be done in a week. Wray wasn't available, so they called Rosenstein. Rosenstein said it could. Soon after, Flake asked for the probe.

[Beasts of England]

If you haven't watched Flake being accosted in the elevator, it's worth the fun. No one expects the Two Minute Hate.

[Jim Eagle]

I am still waiting for "Mattress Girl" to show up, and berate Flake.

[Old Lurker]

Henry "At NR, McCarthy figured out the Dems lied. Day late, dollar short."

I am about as sick and tired of McCarthy discovering he was lied to as I am waiting for any of the IG reports or unredacted documents.

[Captain Hate]

Is there any other news going on in the world besides this embarrassing Senate spectacle? Surely the pseudo events that the MFM fixates on aren't the only things, not to mention most important things, going on.

Flake, Murkowski and Collins are the type of cowardly trash that the GOP inflicts on the country because BIG TENT! Are they really the best that we should expect? I don't think so. Maybe the apologists for that poor excuse for a party ought to raise their expectations a bit and maybe stop sending them money. At least Graham seemed to get it. Progress of sorts.

[paul kersey]

Its a soap opera box with outtakes from scandal and St. Elmos fire, with kavanaugh as emilio estevez mark judge as rob Lowe, other analogues to be named later.

[Captain Hate]

Where's that fucking FISA Report?

[Extraneus]

I blacked out once from drinking Long Island Ice Teas at a bar near college. Woke up in my car in the parking lot the next morning. The next week I showed up at this same bar and people I didn't even know came up to me to say what a life of the party I was that night. I had absolutely no recollection of them or anything they were talking about.

Never drank a Long Island Iced Tea again and never will.

[Beasts of England]

Cut McCarthy some slack, henry - he's been busy writing an article about uncouth it will be if the cousin-humping Trumpists shoot back during the next Civil War...

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

Bob Goodlatte
‏Verified account @RepGoodlatte
16h16 hours ago

As part of our joint investigation into decisions made by DOJ in 2016, today I subpoenaed Glenn Simpson to appear for a deposition.

Bob Goodlatte
‏Verified account @RepGoodlatte

We’ve also invited James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Stuart Evans, Richard Scott, Sally Moyer, and Mike Kortan as witnesses. Will subpoena them if necessary.

[paul kersey]

Yes there was an attempted terrorist attack in Amsterdam, where the precursors to anfifa killed pin fortuyn, bibi warned about another undeclared uranium nuclear site,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--At NR, McCarthy figured out the Dems lied.--

Charlie McCarthy was smarter than Andy and his head was made out of wood and he had a man's hand up his bum.

[Extraneus]

"Where's that fucking FISA Report?"

-- Donald J. Trump

[paul kersey]

Guess what Andy, there's no Santa Claus either.

[Old Lurker]

Bob Goodlatte thinks we are still falling for the scam that they "are investigating"?

femall.

[JM Hanes]

LOL OL:

I had almost exactly the same reaction to the Andy McCarthy headlline ("Republicans Should Not Have Delayed the Kavanaugh Vote") over at Instapundit. Ya think? He may understand the technical legalities, but he's blinded by his institutional bias when it comes to politics. I didn't even bother to click the link.

In any case, I've wondered why you've ended up on the ledge while I have not, when we seem to agree on so much. Perhaps it has something to do with where we sit on the tolerance-for-ambiguity continuum.

[paul kersey]

This weeks ncis, relates how you can't trust practically anybody in terrorist circles, shocker Leon was held up in some safe house in Virginia with the wannabe bin laden and someone he thought was an agency asset, that wasnt exactly right.

[JM Hanes]

paul kersey:

These days, it does seem to be getting more difficult to tell the white hats from the black hats. Or maybe it's just because there seem to be a lot fewer white hats around.

[Captain Hate]

bibi warned about another undeclared uranium nuclear site,

He called Ol' Yeller last night and said relations between the USA and Israel have never been better.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Flake and Coons squeezed into an oversize phone booth—

Look up in the sky! It's Super Flake!
Faster than a speeding Schumer spotting a camera.
Stronger than...well, nothing. He's not strong at all, really. GHe's puny and weak.
But he is able to leap tall ethical standards in a single bound, and get a nice tan while doing it.

[Clarice Feldman]

I was screaming about McCarthy from the Libby days. Glad to see you are seeing what I've seen--only 2 (occasional) writers at NR I will bother with as a rule--Conrad Black and VDH.
The never Trumpers seem to want to bring a bowtie to knife fights.

[James D.]

Heading off to meet my newfound cousin for the first time. Should be interested be. Also will see a cousin I haven’t seen since go school, and family friends I haven’t seen in 25 years.

[Extraneus]

Netanyahu called into the Mark Levin Show?

[James D.]

Speaking of blacking out...I’ve had it happen twice.

Freshman year of college, First time I was ever really drunk, and I was told afterwards that I said I wanted to kill my roommate with “the big knife”.

Second time was senior year, and I woke up in my own bed with the door locked from the inside, but I do not know how i got there from where I’d been previously.

Never got that drunk ever again.

[Momto2]

Watching the shrill women screaming at Lindsey Graham, screaming at Flake, and screaming during the regular hearing, I have a question.

Is there no longer ANY line of acceptable behavior in the U.S. Senate Office building? Why do they allow these people to hassle, harass and scream like a mudskipper?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lukKjr9anVg

[Extraneus]

Heading off to meet my newfound cousin for the first time.

What fun.

I once tracked down and reunited my 8-months-pregnant ex-wife with her father, whom she hadn't seen since she was a little girl. It was great. I even got it on video.

Take pictures, James!

[Jane]

I'm mad as hell, but there is one thing I'm maddest about. Ford was not told by her lawyers of the offer to come to CA and interview her. Her lawyers have no right to not relay that offer, it's unethical as hell, and they did it to represent the democrats not Ford. She was used.

It's disgusting.

[Old Lurker]

JMH, fair question.

Are you anywhere close to my age (70)?

But probably it is just predisposition. I have been involved in commercial real estate "deals" all my life, and success there demands an odd mix of unbridled optimism and unbridled "trust but verify" skepticism. Sometimes that exists in the same person, sometimes it requires a partnership. My business partner of 40 years personifies the first, and I have slipped into the role of the latter, especially since "running out of cash or credit" is the fastest road to ruin in the business.

So now it is just a habit I suppose. For the most part it is highly compartmentalized and does not impact my real life but of late I know that I have allowed my political & historical perspectives to merge with my business tendancy, and when I let my bean counting skills color my political outlooks...well then I find myself on the Ledge. (like when I observe that about the same number of Americans voted for Trump as speak languages other than English at home; or that a huge proportion of the cash to run the government is paid by a tiny slice so the others can ride for free; or that evidently no political leaders grasp the importance of balancing budgets or limiting debt; or than votes can be bought outright by promising future benefits when mathematically can never be delivered, ever...all bean counting stuff.)

Thanks for asking, seriously. You are always welcome to visit the Ledge. We have guests from the Veranda all the time.

[Jim Eagle]

Oh?

Did Blasey Ford unwittingly or wittingly commit perjury in opening remarks? Interesting discovery.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/24/man-named-anus-changes-facebook-profile-after-being-butt-of-too-many-jokes-7975939/

Same with engineers, archtects, and interior designers.

[Jim Eagle]

Wrong link, even though its funny as hell.

https://www.dangerous.com/49836/records-show-dr-ford-is-not-a-licensed-psychologist-may-have-committed-perjury/

[DebinGA]

April 7, 2007, then NC AG and now NC Gov. Roy Cooper ended the Duke Lacrosse players' year-long nightmare by declaring them "innocent". Like Kavanaugh, these were largely prep school kids from affluent families whose parties featured a lot of drinking. If Dr. Ford's claim is true, she would have written/spoken of her own nightmare experience in 1982 during the Duke Hoax year. If not, why not?

[Janet 🚬]

((Is there no longer ANY line of acceptable behavior in the U.S. Senate Office building? Why do they allow these people to hassle, harass and scream like a mudskipper?))

No. Not that long ago a Democrat employee screamed 'Fuck you' at President Trump when he was in the Capitol.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/pav5xm/the-intern-who-yelled-fuck-you-at-trump-was-just-suspended-from-the-capitol

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Why do they allow these people to hassle, harass and scream like a mudskipper?--

Thought it was going to be a Ren and Stimpy reference. :)

[Porchlight]

Well, she says she wasn't told, Jane. Did her lawyers confirm that? Also why didn't she read Grassley's letter which clearly stated the offer?

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

One piece of news that was missed: the House passed the bill to make the tax cuts permanent.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ford was not told by her lawyers of the offer to come to CA and interview her.--

So she says.
Flatus in Uno, flatus is Duplo, or some Latiny stuff like that.

[Extraneus]

She was used.

Unless she lied about that, which is what I thought when she said it.

[----peter]

MM, prayers for your daughter's happiness

[paul kersey]

If she lied about the rape, she lied about that too, i imagine.

[Beasts of England]

The first thing Ford did when Mitchell took the floor was make three changes to her submitted statement. I kept thinking that was the 'aha!' moment, and then nothing happened...

[Captain Hate]

Netanyahu called into the Mark Levin Show?

Yes. I think they attended the same high school. They're on friendly terms.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

California governor signs gun control bills into law.

State Senator Anthony Portantino, the Democrat lawmaker who wrote the bill, said the rampage in Florida along with other shootings at high schools motivated him. No parent should have to worry that a gun gets in the wrong hands and commits a heinous and violent tragedy on our school campuses,” he said in a statement...

...which this bill of course doesn't do.

He [Brown] also signed a bill that makes it easier for family members and police to take firearms and ammunition away from people who are believed to be a threat to commit violence.

Surprise, surprise, surprise, another slippery slope.

[Jim Eagle]

So, I am stuck in the house, since they decided to use my street as part of the routing of the Southampton Marathon, Half Marathon, and 5K run. There is no gap big enough to back the car out of the driveway, and parking area.

[Threadkiller]

I also decided to killfile TK today

#MeToo

[Extraneus]

No parent should have to worry that a gun gets in the wrong hands and commits a heinous and violent tragedy on our school campuses,” he said in a statement...

Guns commit tragedies.

[Old Lurker]

MM "One piece of news that was missed: the House passed the bill to make the tax cuts permanent."

A good thing of course. But surely we have learned by now that the House likes to pass things for show that they know will die in the Senate.

So I no longer give the House credit for much because I always suspect they don't really intend it to become law.

Sorry Maryrose.

:-)

[Old Lurker]

TK "I also decided to killfile TK today

#MeToo"

I accidentally hushed myself once TK. It was glorious!

[Captain Hate]

So I no longer give the House credit for much because I always suspect they don't really intend it to become law.

Not who we are.

[Old Lurker]

"Not who we are."

And the source of that quote, being so so much smarter than I am, is exactly why I distrust them so, Cap'n.

[Extraneus]

Maher: Kavanaugh Was Acting During Committee Hearing – I Don’t Believe His Daughter Said to Pray for Ford

Maher said, “So, this performance he put on yesterday, I always say, you know, acting is not that hard. I’ve always said that about Hollywood. You can say that, and then reality television came along and showed it’s true. It’s not that — anyone can do it.”

He added, “I’m just saying, I believe that was acting, and I also don’t even believe that his 10-year-old daughter said let’s pray for that woman.”

He thinks that Kavanaugh would have his daughter grow up knowing for a fact that her father lied under oath, while using her as a prop.

[Jane]

"Well, she says she wasn't told, Jane. Did her lawyers confirm that? Also why didn't she read Grassley's letter which clearly stated the offer?"

Grassley's letter went to her lawyers, not her. The entire goal of her legal team is: delay delay delay. She didn't want to go thru that and they forced her.

But she got a million bucks for her efforts. I wonder how much Flake got.

[Dorris Goodwin]

lt looked to the future with what he called a “Square Deal”—for the rich and the poor, the capitalist and the wageworker. Candidate Trump promised to utilize his skill, which he laid out in The Art of the Deal, to bring America back to a simpler time of greatness. But, in the end, the success of any deal depends on the character and the experience of the dealer. No one would argue that either Roosevelt or Trump suffered from a deficiency of bravado or confidence. Yet Roosevelt grew in power precisely because he grew to know his limitations, because he developed the humility to acknowledge his mistakes. After his first, wildly successful term in the state legislature, he developed, in his own words, a “swelled” head. Whenever opposed, he would yell, pound his desk, and retaliate with venom. While his blistering language made great newspaper copy, he soon found himself bereft of support. It began to dawn upon him, he conceded, that he was “not all-important” and that “cooperation from other people” was essential.

That President Trump has not developed such humility is evident. When asked during his campaign whom he consulted on foreign policy, he said, “My primary consultant is myself, and I have a good instinct for this stuff.” Accepting the Republican nomination, he noted, “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.” In the long run, however, the presidency has a way of humbling even the most self-assured.

While both Roosevelt and Trump were born to extraordinary privilege, Roosevelt’s empathy slowly expanded through his long political career. As a state legislator, he investigated the dreadful conditions in New York City’s tenements. As police commissioner, he roamed the slums between midnight and sunrise. His understanding of his fellow citizens broadened during his time in the armed forces, as New York governor, and as vice president. In sum, he was amply prepared as a leader in 1901 when the assassination of William McKinley catapulted him to the presidency at age 42, the youngest man ever to occupy the White House.

During the unprecedented Republican-primary season of 2016, long and broad public service was perceived as a liability. The times were ripe for a candidate with no political background to catch the lightning. Things were so topsy-turvy and toxic, it seemed as if we had left a world where experience, temperament, and character mattered, and entered one where knowledge of history and government and law had all been jettisoned. Candidate Trump brilliantly capitalized on these atmospherics by railing against the political status quo and giving a voice to those who felt excluded.

Campaigning and stoking one’s base, however, is not governing. Governing requires bringing sides together, rather than simply tallying wins and losses. This understanding of leadership has eluded Trump so far. “You hear lots of people say that a great deal is when both sides win,” Trump maintains. “That is a bunch of crap…. I always win.”.

[Dorris Goodwin]

"He thinks that Kavanaugh would have his daughter grow up knowing for a fact that her father lied under oath, while using her as a prop."

He had no qualms about exposing his 'loved ones ' to public ridicule.

[derwill]

If it was Rosenstein who promised a week, then it’s only going to take a week. It is truly not in his best interests at this point in time to screw with this. The FBI will find nothing because there is nothing for them to find. McConnell has already started the 30 hour debate clock. The vote will be taken. I would not be surprised if even Flake votes yes, because he’s going to run for president as the reincarnation of Rodney King—why can’t we all just get along? He wants to look like the peacemaker, by trying to please both sides. Give Dems the FBI investigation, then give Republicans a yes vote.

In hindsight I think that while this has been truly a nightmare for Kavanaugh and his family, it will be better for the country in the long run. If we want to have a chance at avoiding a civil war or descending into a totalitarian state, we need defining moments like this. Events that force people to choose what side they are on. A whole lot of normal, good people who have been voting Democrat out of habit or ignorance are being forced to choose: do I believe in innocence until proven guilty? Am I okay with destroying a man’s life and his family based solely on the word of a woman whose story can’t be corroborated in any way? Do I want to vote for people who would do this? Do I want to give these people the power to do this to me?

[boris]

"She didn't want to go thru that and they forced her"

She was reluctant to go thru that but they convinced her she was the only hope to kill the monsters T & K.

[jimmyk]

I wonder how much Flake got.

Flake gets to preserve his employment options at MSNBCa and CNN as a representative "Republican" point of view.

This is one of many big problems with the one-week delay. The four pussies of the Senate are getting deluged with enticements and threats of one thing or another by the left. The right doesn't play that game so well. It only takes two of them to yield, unless Manchin and some other Dem cross over. Wavering Dems are also getting threats, no doubt.

[jimmyk]

The FBI will find nothing because there is nothing for them to find.

Depending on which side one thinks the burden of proof lies, that's either good or bad for Kavanaugh. The mush-minded wavering Senators aren't clear on that, or maybe think it lies with Kavanaugh.

[Porchlight]

Grassley's letter was released to the public. I get that her lawyers probably told her to stay away from the news but I would have at least followed the actions and statements of the Judiciary Committee if I were her.

[Porchlight]

Ford is a grown woman and wasn't forced to do anything. Enough of this victim business.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

It occurs to me that the FBI has every reason NOT to find anything new in the K situation. Do they really want to reveal that they were incompetent 6X BEFORE?

[jimmyk]

By the FBI/Comey standard of "intent by Democrats," Ford didn't lie lie about her credential as a psychologist. Plus she used the term "hippocampus" in her testimony, so she must be really smart.

[jimmyk]

Has anyone here called Ford a "victim"?

[Threadkiller]

I accidentally hushed myself once TK. It was glorious!

:-)

[narciso]

The other crazy socialist up in your neck of the woods pulled a Michelle fields against Netanyahu spokesman.

[Janet 🚬]

I believe the prayer story. My kids & I did that often at bedtime prayers.

It is foundational Christianity.
"... and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;"

One specific time that comes to mind is when someone stole something from my daughter. We prayed for whoever had done it & that Jesus would use that sin to bring them to Him.
That the misdeed would lead to salvation.

[Jim Eagle]

The US Ryder Cup team needs to start employing analytics just like pro-football and baseball. If they did, they would find out that Tiger should never have been a Captain's pick. Goes for Phil also. Tiger is 0-5-1 in Foursomes, yet Furyk continues to play him in the afternoon foursomes. Just strange as hell to me.

[Dorothy Jane]

The Swetnick chick has said she will be interviewed by the FBI. My prediction, she will couch everything "with that was my perception, that's what I think I saw," etc. I can't believe, after what happens when you lie to the FBI, (Martha Stewart) she will actually say he raped anyone or that she saw him spike punch. It's all a snare and a delusion.

[DebinGA]

"Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, Members of the Committee. My name is Christine Blasey Ford. I am a Professor of Psychology at Palo Alto University and a Research Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine."

Where's her Stanford School of Medicine profile?

[Old Lurker]

Derwill, it is also a good good thing, should he be confirmed, to have a survivor of such self serving, outrageous and unjustified abuse to be on the court. Especially one who obviously can express his toughts logically and forcefully. It sure takes "protecting and defending the Constitution" out of the ivory tower abstract and into real life.

[Extraneus]

Here, Deb.

https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/christine-blasey

[Extraneus]

(Btw, it's blank.)

[Captain Hate]

When did Maher become an expert on children and prayer? Fantasies of Kamala Harris getting railed by Willie Brown are more in his wheelhouse.

[Extraneus]

Jeff Carlson with some details on Dr. Fraud's new attorney, who also represents McCabe.

https://themarketswork.com/2018/09/28/jeff-flakes-capitulation-democrat-delay-tactics-and-the-strategic-addition-of-lawyer-bromwich/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The deal was a week for the FBI to investigate any claims made up to that point.
I expect McConnell to to stick to that.

[DebinGA]

Thanks, Ex. Why scrub her title if she's a licensed research psychologist as she claims? Palo Alto U's site labels her as such, but not Stanford Med.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I always say, you know, acting is not that hard.--

I take it Maher has never actually watched any of the trash he was in, cuz he sure made it look hard.

[Miss Marple (the real one)]

https://nypost.com/2018/09/29/more-than-380-dead-after-tsunami-hits-indonesia/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

So the Dems want presidents Trump and then Pence to have two bonus picks to the SCOTUS?
How thoughtful.
Perhaps pres Pence should make it a bakers dozen.
Idiots.

[narciso]

They think they can prevent that circumstance, 50 demerits for Bannon for promoting that weasel on the Maher show.

[jimmyk]

I expect McConnell to to stick to that.

Maybe, but if he doesn't have the votes, and Flake or Murkowski decide on some new demand, what then?